It's that time of year — time for the "trios" project sequence in the #DisquietJunto music community. The first of these will appear at 12:10am Pacific tomorrow (May 8) at https://disquiet.com/0697, and go out at the same time to the email list (https://juntoletter.disquiet.com).
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On this #bandcampfriday, I am releasing a set of ambient tracks I performed during a candlelight yoga class last night for my first SOLO live performance EVER! These are all re-worked versions of tracks I created for the #NaviarHaiku Challenge, #DisquietJunto and #WeeklyBeats. Pay what you want or nothing at all to download here: https://thgirwnhoj.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-yoga #musodon #mymusic #originalmusic #ambientmusic
Disquiet Junto Project 0696: Chain of Layers
The Assignment: Make music change by altering its layers.
This project is the first of three that are being done in by the #DisquietJunto in collaboration with the 2025 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 3 through 7. The festival topic this year is « Kette » — which translates, as the organization explains, to “Chain”: “Chains connect but they also bind. They create relationships but also restrictions. As a gift they look nice, feared when used in vice, and yet they can span bridges across fire and ice.” All three Junto projects will engage with the work of Svetlana Maraš, who is the Composer-in-Residence for the 2025 festival.
Step 1: Record 10 to 15 layers of continuous sound.
Step 2: Create a piece of music in which you only change the relative presence of those individual layers from Step 1 over time. Some light effects and panning are certainly fine, but the majority of the impact should be how the prominence of the individual layers changes.
Deadline: Monday, May 5, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.
Details: disquiet.com/0696
We're again collaborating with Musikfestival Bern, for the 7th year in a row. A new #DisquietJunto music community project will appear at 12:10am Pacific tomorrow (May 1) at https://disquiet.com/0696, and go out at the same time to the email list (https://juntoletter.disquiet.com). The theme explores layers.
What does music sound like when it has been dried in a tumble dryer? This striking question was posed by
@disquiet in this week's Disquiet Junto project. I thought about this metaphorical question and then put a track into the dryer. I hope you enjoy the result.
Disquiet Junto Project 0695: Clean After Each Use
The Assignment: Put a piece of music through the dryer.
Step 1: Think about lint for a moment — all the stuff that’s cast off from your clothes when you send them through the dryer.
Step 2: Now consider what might be cast off from your music if you could send your music through the dryer for a cycle or two.
Step 3: Select a piece of your own music, and send it through the metaphorical dryer. What results?
Deadline: Monday, April 28, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.
Details: disquiet.com/0695
A new #DisquietJunto music community project will appear at 12:10am Pacific tomorrow (April 24) at https://disquiet.com/0695, and go out at the same time to the email list (https://juntoletter.disquiet.com). The theme explores clothes dryers.
This week's #DisquietJunto prompt was to take an existing track that is in 4/4 and re-work it so it is in 5/4. I participated in #WeeklyBeats in 2024 and near the end I challenged myself to compose tracks in any time signature other than 4/4. I ended up with a handful of tracks in odd time that I really enjoyed making. So I went back to Week 1 from last year and converted it from 4/4 to 5/4. https://on.soundcloud.com/QU4oFPKXf72Wsczu6 #Disquiet0694 #electronicmusic #mymusic #originalmusic #musicproduction #musodon
Conceptual, feminist, noisy, terrifying. You probably don't want to listen to this.
(Unless you're wondering what the exit music for a Dario Argento remake of The Shining might sound like.)
https://soundcloud.com/coralineada/like-a-melody-disquiet0694
I contributed to the #DisquietJunto this week - the assignment was to take a 4/4 track and make it 5/4.
The first track of mine I thought to use was actually in 5/4 already, I'd forgotten. 
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-0694-5-4ify/71539/8
I recommend the Disquiet Junto, so fun!
lines · Disquiet Junto 0694: 5/4ifyI picked a track that came out in 2023. I had the project file, so just opened that up and edited the note clips etc. to get it all into the new time signature. I inserted a beat 3 8th beats into the bar, if that makes sense (the and of 2, if you count like that). The only audio to work with was a rhythmic loop of a dishwasher, which had a very regular 2-beat kind of feel. I took every group of 4 beats and stretched out 1 8th beat from the second beat, so it lasted 3 8ths instead. The loop ...
Disquiet Junto Project 0694: 5/4ify
The Assignment: Add a beat to a pre-existing piece of music.
There is just one step to this project: Take a pre-existing piece of music that is in 4/4 — either your own or something in the public domain — and add a beat to each measure, transforming it into 5/4.
Deadline: Monday, April 21, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.
Details: disquiet.com/0694
There's nothing like being in recovery from serious respiratory crud, realizing you need some vertical time before going back to sleep, and finding an excellent challenge from #DisquietJunto that totally fits my needs at the moment! Already got some great starting tracks laid down and I think I'm gonna head back to sleep now.
A new #DisquietJunto music community project will appear at 12:10am Pacific tomorrow (April 17) at https://disquiet.com/0694, and go out at the same time to the email list (https://juntoletter.disquiet.com). The theme explores 5/4 time.
New track out on #Bandcamp today in honor of April 14th 
“Gymnopédie #14 [Avril]” combines Satie and Aphex Twin, first arranged for a #disquietjunto project almost 6 years ago… https://alexhawthorn.bandcamp.com/track/gymnop-die-14-avril
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In terms of instrumentation, I kept things fun and simple: Yamama digital piano supported by pads and accents courtesy of a vintage Korg M3R.
(I have a soft spot for the M3R because my first digital synth back in 1990 or so was an M1.)
This week's Disquiet Junto had us choose a popular work (I picked Claire de Lune) and sort its notes by name and length.
My daddy didn't raise me to do math on paper, so I turned to Ruby and wrote a little script to manipulate the MIDI. It was easy & a lot of fun. (I link to the Ruby script in the track description.)
The piece came out sounding like a “variations on a theme” thing. Overall pleasant and listenable.
https://soundcloud.com/coralineada/the-lunar-sort-variations-disquiet0693
Disquiet Junto Project 0693: Melody Sorted
The Assignment: Reorganize a familiar song note by note.
Deadline: Monday, April 14, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.
Details: disquiet.com/0693
A new #DisquietJunto music community project will appear at 12:10am Pacific tomorrow (April 10) at https://disquiet.com/0693, and go out at the same time to the email list (https://juntoletter.disquiet.com). The theme explores alphabetization.
https://jazzaria.bandcamp.com/album/fire-and-forget
Some things are burned to remember - others, to forget. When systems are burning knowledge is lost, and the fire spreads. The past is lost twice - first slowly, then all at once.
Featuring clarinet, accompanied by bass drum, hi-hat, crackling fire, and tom drums.